100+ Jobs to go at Rigney

Max Powers

On front of N&S paper, about 120 jobs to go at Rigney Dolphin....another blow for Waterford. Anyone notice a lot of the jobs announced recently were in Cork, Galway, Kerry and Dublin. I realise these jobs are in the pipeline for months and these companies often have bases already in that area but it just highlights the situation the South-East is in.

Lack of investment & little political power = lack of stable government jobs and FDI.

decies

Its bad all right ,somebody just told me shaws are on protective notice,and awear might be pulling out.

mike65

That's been quite well flagged hasn't it?

ziedth

Seems to be very little light at the end of the tunnel jobwise.

Psychedelic

Max Powers wrote: »

On front of N&S paper, about 120 jobs to go at Rigney Dolphin....another blow for Waterford. Anyone notice a lot of the jobs announced recently were in Cork, Galway, Kerry and Dublin. I realise these jobs are in the pipeline for months and these companies often have bases already in that area but it just highlights the situation the South-East is in.

Lack of investment & little political power = lack of stable government jobs and FDI.

Even Tralee are getting jobs ahead of the South East

No offence to Tralee but surely whatever infrastructure they have Waterford would have much more to offer.

Max Powers

Psychedelic wrote: »

Even Tralee are getting jobs ahead of the South East

No offence to Tralee but surely whatever infrastructure they have Waterford would have much more to offer.

They have great roads down there, easy access to Cork airport, Shannon, M8 and better funded local airport. More to the point, they have political clout.

Partizan

Max Powers wrote: »

They have great roads down there, easy access to Cork airport, Shannon, M8 and better funded local airport. More to the point, they have political clout.

Didn't we have a senior minister at the Cabinet table for 7-8 years and that was during the bubble.

chelloveks

Partizan wrote: »

Didn't we have a senior minister at the Cabinet table for 7-8 years and that was during the bubble.

Well the senior minister must have been playing with his yarbles under the table cause he didn't do fck all for the area!

Partizan

Is this true or just a pisstake?

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/article.php?id=102

MitchKoobski

Definitely true. Sure you can see the shadows from the people in the picture...:pac:

Partizan

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Definitely true. Sure you can see the shadows from the people in the picture...:pac:

cocoshovel

Wasnt there discussion only recently like last week about job opportunities there?

Dan133269

Unfortunately it's true Partizan, friend of mine went to sign on last week, ended up queueing for 7 hours. Numerous charities were there handing out food to those queuing because they were there so long!

Max Powers wrote: »

They have great roads down there, easy access to Cork airport, Shannon, M8 and better funded local airport. More to the point, they have political clout.

So what are their elected TDs doing that ours aren't?
Please bear in mind that none of the Healy-Rae gombeens are in the government anymore.

Yes Boss

Dan133269 wrote: »

Unfortunately it's true Partizan, friend of mine went to sign on last week, ended up queueing for 7 hours. Numerous charities were there handing out food to those queuing because they were there so long!



So what are their elected TDs doing that ours aren't?
Please bear in mind that none of the Healy-Rae gombeens are in the government anymore.

I'm sure they are opening their mouths and fighting for their communities and not standing beside their leaders trying to get their picture taken...:mad:

Dan133269

Yes Boss wrote: »

I'm sure they are opening their mouths and fighting for their communities and not standing beside their leaders trying to get their picture taken...:mad:

Ciara Conway with a huge smile on her face outside TalkTalk was a bit sickening alright, I won't vote for her again after that.

But how does opening their mouths and fighting for their communities bring foreign investment to a particular town? What is the link between Kerry's representatives being in the Dail and that company setting up in Tralee?

Partizan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VVst3QrqzO8

Interesting to see ex WP and now Ind TD John Halligan at 0.51 in the video canvassing with FG for the Yes vote. Where are those jobs now John? Bit shallow of you to be on the national media bleating on about the job losses at Talk Talk when you pushed the 'Yes to Lisbon Yes to Jobs' disingenious line.

Anyway a friend from Waterford text me to say that Shaws are going into receivership and Debenhams in City Square are also like A-wear rumoured to be upping sticks and leaving.

When will this end?

Dan133269

What did the Lisbon Treaty have to do with job losses in Waterford?

Partizan

Dan133269 wrote: »

What did the Lisbon Treaty have to do with job losses in Waterford?

The pro-Lisbon parties aided by business groups pushed the disingenious Vote Yes for Jobs line and that if we voted No second time, the sky would fall in. The Yes campaigners were telling auld wans outside of Church that if they voted No, their grandchildren would lose their jobs. As a No campaigner, I got this first hand myself from a number of people.

"lead to thousands of new jobs by restoring confidence in Irelands battered economy" -Quote from Enda Kenny

julyjane

Partizan wrote: »

Didn't we have a senior minister at the Cabinet table for 7-8 years and that was during the bubble.

Yes but Kerry had an "independent" TD who was in bed with FF for years and got the sun, moon and stars for Kerry in exchange for votes on certain issues.

Yes Boss

Dan133269 wrote: »

Ciara Conway with a huge smile on her face outside TalkTalk was a bit sickening alright, I won't vote for her again after that.

But how does opening their mouths and fighting for their communities bring foreign investment to a particular town? What is the link between Kerry's representatives being in the Dail and that company setting up in Tralee?

The point is - is that they are terrified of stepping out of line or they may be cast aside like Deasy. However, i would like to see them fighting for a fair slice of the cake than cozying up in the party to protect their own future.

south

Max Powers wrote: »

They have great roads down there, easy access to Cork airport, Shannon, M8 and better funded local airport. More to the point, they have political clout.

Great roads? Tralee to Castleisland , Tralee to Killarney , and the Castleisland bypass other then that the roads are crap. You'd get to Cork airport faster from here then you would from Tralee. The M8 is a good distance away from Tralee also.

ex_infantry man

your actually forgetting that a major irish yes irish multinational company with a turnover of 5 billion euro is based in tralee kerry group

cataclysm

so can this go back to rigney dolphin losing 150 jobs??

fuzzy dunlop

Psychedelic wrote: »

Even Tralee are getting jobs ahead of the South East

No offence to Tralee but surely whatever infrastructure they have Waterford would have much more to offer.

This is the nub of the issue and our impotent politicians are "welcoming" a few bob for a cycle track in Dungarvan. Jesus wept!

Marchandire

I was reading the thread on unions here, and was wondering: are the Rigney Dolphin workers unionised? I worked there about ten years ago and the staff conditions were terrible - the bare minimum required by law and no more.

Do the staff have anyone to represent them in severance/rendundancy talks, or is each staff member on their own?

uppishhauk

Rigneydolphin lost one of it contracts (Meteor/E-Mobile) to an Indian company who will be based in Cork, of the employees with rigney its either keep your job and move to Cork or become unemployed

whats_happenin

Marchandire wrote: »

I was reading the thread on unions here, and was wondering: are the Rigney Dolphin workers unionised? I worked there about ten years ago and the staff conditions were terrible - the bare minimum required by law and no more.

Do the staff have anyone to represent them in severance/rendundancy talks, or is each staff member on their own?

No they are not unionised. But there is a group of staff that are classed as the employee reps.

dayshah

whats_happenin wrote: »

No they are not unionised. But there is a group of staff that are classed as the employee reps.

'Employees reps' have the same relevance as students councils in secondary schools.

looder

http://www.recruitireland.com/job/temp-customer-service-agents-waterford/14533198/

Rigney looking to hire people now. Strange indeed.

merlante

Partizan wrote: »

Didn't we have a senior minister at the Cabinet table for 7-8 years and that was during the bubble.

This sort of comment drives me nuts. Waterford is undergoing a serious jobs crisis and all you can do is score political points against a retired politician of a party all but consigned to oblivion. Who cares what happened 5 years ago, we need solutions now.